Bill Text: MO HB1062 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest DraftBill Title: Requires a school district to include in its annual school accountability report card whether it has a state-approved gifted education program or services and the number of students served

To repeal section 160.522, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to school
accountability.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 160.522, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
thereof, to be known as section 160.522, to read as follows:

160.522. 1. The department of elementary and secondary education shall produce or
cause to be produced, at least annually, a school accountability report card for each public school
district, each public school building in a school district, and each charter school in the state. The
report card shall be designed to satisfy state and federal requirements for the disclosure of
statistics about students, staff, finances, academic achievement, and other indicators. The
purpose of the report card shall be to provide educational statistics and accountability
information for parents, taxpayers, school personnel, legislators, and the print and broadcast
news media in a standardized, easily accessible form.

2. The department of elementary and secondary education shall develop a standard form
for the school accountability report card. The information reported shall include, but not be
limited to, the district's most recent accreditation rating, enrollment, rates of pupil attendance,
high school dropout rate and graduation rate, the number and rate of suspensions of ten days or
longer and expulsions of pupils, the district ratio of students to administrators and students to
classroom teachers, the average years of experience of professional staff and advanced degrees
earned, student achievement as measured through the assessment system developed pursuant to
section 160.518, student scores on the ACT, along with the percentage of graduates taking the
test, average teachers' and administrators' salaries compared to the state averages, average per
pupil current expenditures for the district as a whole and by attendance center as reported to the
department of elementary and secondary education, the adjusted tax rate of the district, assessed
valuation of the district, percent of the district operating budget received from state, federal, and
local sources, the percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, data on the percent
of students continuing their education in postsecondary programs, [and] information about the
job placement rate for students who complete district vocational education programs, whether
the school district currently has a state-approved gifted education program or services, and
the percentage and number of students who are currently being served in the district's
state-approved gifted education program or services.

3. The report card shall permit the disclosure of data on a school-by-school basis, but the
reporting shall not be personally identifiable to any student or education professional in the state.

4. The report card shall identify each school or attendance center that has been identified
as a priority school under sections 160.720 and 161.092. The report also shall identify
attendance centers that have been categorized under federal law as needing improvement or
requiring specific school improvement strategies.

5. The report card shall not limit or discourage other methods of public reporting and
accountability by local school districts. Districts shall provide information included in the report
card to parents, community members, the print and broadcast news media, and legislators by
December first annually or as soon thereafter as the information is available to the district, giving
preference to methods that incorporate the reporting into substantive official communications
such as student report cards. The school district shall provide a printed copy of the district-level
or school-level report card to any patron upon request and shall make reasonable efforts to supply
businesses such as, but not limited to, real estate and employment firms with copies or other
information about the reports so that parents and businesses from outside the district who may
be contemplating relocation have access.